Watch protector



April 6, 1937. J. W. BRADBURY WATCH PROTEG TOR Filed Aug. 28, 1936 Patented Apr. 6, 1937 .UNlTED STATES PATENT OFFICE WATCH PROTECTOR Joseph ,W. Bradbury, Manchester, N. H.

Application August 28, 1936, Serial No. 98,391

6 Claims.

This invention aims to provide a simple but effective means for housing a wrist watch and protecting it against dust and dirt, the wrist watch being protected, also, against moisture, whether the moisture may come from the body of the wearer or from an external source. It is within the province of the disclosure to improve generally and to enhance the utility of devices of that type to which the present invention appertains.

With the above and other objects in view, which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed, may be made within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention. In the accompanying drawing: Fig. 1 shows in elevation, a device constructed in accordance with the invention, mounted on the wrist of a wearer;

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section showing the device as it will appear when in use;

, Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section showing the device extended; I

Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section showing the device as it will appear after one told has been made therein.

In carrying out the invention, there is provided a tube, made of resilient material, preferably rubber, the material being transparent, or so nearly transparent that a wrist watch can be seen through it. The tube comprises a body I, having a first end portion 2 which is somewhat thicker than the body I. The first end portion 2 has inner circumferential ribs 3 and outer circumferential ribs 4. v

The second end portion 5 of the body I has external circumferential ribs 6. The second end portion 5 terminates in a thinned inwardly extended gripping lip I. The body I is supplied with external circumferential ribs 3, located nearer I the ribs 6 than to the ribs 4.

The hand of the wearer is thrust through the tube in a direction of the arrow A in Fig. 3. A wrist watch 9 is placed on the outside of the body I and is held thereon by the usual strap III, if 5 desired. The device then is formed into the cut! shown in Fig. 1. The first end portion 2 is turned inside outto overlie the body and form an annular wrist watch compartment I I at one extremity of the cuff. The first end portion 2 grips the body 55 I, as shown at I2, to close the inner end of the compartment I I. The ribs 4 on the end portion 2 interengage with the ribs 8 on the body I to hold the end portion 2 against movement longitudinally of the body I. The second end portion I is turned so inside out to overlie the first end portion 2, as

shown in Fig. 2, the ribs 6 on the end portion 8 interengaging with the ribs 3 and the end portion 2, to hold the end portion 5 against movement longitudinally of the body. The thinned lip 'I on the endportion 5 grips the end portion 2 closely, as in Fig. 2 and forms a tight seal against dust, moisture and the like.

It is to be observed that the entrance of dirt or moisture to the compartment II is barred at four places, namely, where the end portion 2 grips the body. I at I2, where the ribs 8 and l interengage, where the ribs 3 and 6 interengage, and where the lip I grips the end portion 2, as shown in Fig. 2.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is':

1. A wrist watch protector comprising a cull made of a tube oi resilient material, the tube including a body having an end portion turned inside out to overlie the body and form an annular wrist watch compartment at one extremity of the cufi, said end portion gripping the body to close the inner end of the compartment.

2. A wrist watch protector constructed as set forth in claim 1, and further characterized by the fact that said end portion and the body are supplied with releasably interengaged parts coacting to hold said end portion against movement longitudinally of the body.

3. A wrist watch protector comprising a cuff made of a tube of resilient material, the tube including a body having a first end portion turned inside out to overlie the body and form an annular wrist watch compartment at one extremity of the cuff, the body having a second end portion turned inside out to overlie the first end portion.

4. A wrist watch protector constructed as setforth in'claim 3, and further characterized by the fact that the end portions are supplied with releasably interengaged parts coacting to hold the end portions against movement longitudinally of the body.

5. A wrist watch protector constructed as set forth in claim 3, and further characterized by the fact that the first end portion and the body are supplied with releasably interengaged parts coacting to hold the first end portion against movement longitudinally of the body, both of said end portions being supplied with releasably interengaged parts also coacting to hold the end portions against movement longitudinally of the body and against longitudinal movement relatively to eachother.

6. A wrist watch protector constructed as set forth in claim 3, and further characterized by the fact that the second end portion terminates in a thinned annular lipwhich embraces the first end portion closely.

J OBEPH W. BRADBURY. 

